Digital Skills Workshops
Booking is now available for our up-coming Digital Skills Workshops. If you have any questions, please just email the LDC and ask.
To attend a workshop, please book a place in advance as spaces are limited. You will receive a reminder the day before which will include the room number.
If you have booked a place, but could no longer attend, please cancel your booking using the instructions in the booking email confirmation or by emailing LDC_HLS@gcu.ac.uk as soon as possible to allow other students to book that place.
Getting the most of Microsoft Word 365 and OneDrive (online session)
Friday 4th October 11am-12noon
Dictate to Word
Share document
Easy formatting
Proofreading tools
You will probably be using Word most of all for your assignments (essays, reports, etc.), so knowing how to use some of the new tools inside Word can save you time and effort and make it easier to manage your studies.
Using OneDrive will also ensure that your files are safe and you can access previous versions of them as well as share and work collaboratively.
Tables in Microsoft Word, including APA format (online session)
Thursday 10th October 10am-11am
Creating and editing tables in Word
Merging and splitting cells and borders control
Controlling the flow of tables in Word and creating landscape pages for large tables
Formatting an APA style table
Tables are a very useful way to present and structure a lot of information, but they are also very often bringing a variety of challenges. This session will show some very useful tools and trick that will give you more control over your tables.
Surveys (online session)
Monday 14th October 10am-11:30am
Designing your survey and survey questions
Choosing a platform
Common issues
Downloading your data
Collecting good, reliable and useful data is always the corner stone of good research so creating a survey that can collect such data for you is a key skill. The session will explore some terminology as well as show some free platforms with a variety of different features.
Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)
Friday 25th October 1pm-3pm
Preparing a presentation – general content and structure
Structuring your slides by using different slide layout and multilevel lists
Using graphics – images and diagrams
Slide Themes and Design ideas
Running and controlling the presentation
When required to create a presentation, PowerPoint is by far the most popular and easy to use software for that. This session will show you how to plan and create well structured and visually attractive presentations that will also enable you to present with confidence. Using PowerPoint 365, you can also create a shared PowerPoint presentation that you can work on together on a group presentation.
Academic posters (online session)
Thursday 31st October 10am-11:30am
Please watch the video in the link above before the session!
Q&A and discussion session
You will be sent a link to a 30min video to watch in advance of the session and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion.
Excel for basic data analysis and preparation for SPSS (on campus session)
Friday 8th November 1pm-3pm
Entering data
Quick calculations
Filtering and sorting
Manipulating data
Presenting your data visually
Quick reporting from your data (pivot tables)
Getting to know how to enter and manipulate data in Excel is a very useful skill that helps not just with getting to know your data, but also with a basic initial analysis. You will also be shown how to use Excel to prepare your data for further analysis with SPSS.
SPSS and importing data from Excel (on campus session)
Thursday 14th November 2pm-4pm
How SPSS works – variables and values
Selecting parts of the data file (filtering)
Graphs and charts
Recoding variables
How to do frequency statistics, crosstabulation, etc.
Importing data from Excel files into SPSS and auto-coding it
This session will only cover the use of SPSS to do basic data manipulation and will not cover statistics or result interpretation.
Microsoft Word for Dissertation (online session)
Thursday 28th November 10am-11am
You will need to watch and attempt to follow the video tutorials (link above) before the session
Q&A session
Tips and tricks
You will be sent a link to a tool for you to choose your requirements so you will get a series of tailored videos to watch in advance of the session. At the session you will have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues. Some tips and tricks will also be shared.